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Former Caribbean champion Joshua Kelly removed any uncertainty as to whether he is fully recovered from a broken leg as he crossed the finish line first in Category One of the Barbados Cycling Union’s criterium on the Maynard’s, St Peter/Alleynedale, St Lucy circuit on Sunday. In the presence of supporters alongside the Alleynedale stretch near St Lucy Parish Church, Kelly, a member of Miami Blazers in the United States, but …
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Nora McGreevy (Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021) writes that archaeologists conducting excavations on the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius have discovered 48 skeletons to date. By some estimates, European merchants transported more than four million enslaved Africans to the Caribbean islands between the 16th and…